Tinfoilers just LOVE the word "anomalies." Richard C. Hoagland, tinfoiler extraordinaire and the popularizer of the "face on Mars" conspiracy theory, uses the word in ever other sentence. I guess they think it makes them sound smart and authoritative.
Where I work (giant defense company) Flight Test preparation
orders used to be written with instructions to look
for "strange anomalies"....as different than the usual anomalies